Support apparatus for gearing pair and industrial application

ABSTRACT

A support apparatus for a first gearing and a second gearing or for a drive includes first and second support flanges, a first support mounted to the first support flange and destined to introduce a first supporting force into the second support flange, and a second support mounted on the second support flange and destined to introduce a second supporting force into the first support flange, wherein the first support is sized to extend through the second support.

CROSS-REFERENCES TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application claims the priority of European Patent Application,Serial No. EP18160708.6, filed Mar. 8, 2018, pursuant to 35 U.S.C.119(a)-(d), the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by referencein its entirety as if fully set forth herein.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates to a support apparatus for a gearing pairand to an industrial application, which is equipped with such a supportapparatus.

The following discussion of related art is provided to assist the readerin understanding the advantages of the invention, and is not to beconstrued as an admission that this related art is prior art to thisinvention.

The plant engineering industry requires applications withever-increasing mechanical efficiency. At the same time, suchapplications need to have high reliability, durability, compactness andease of manufacture. Hence, enhanced-performance applications withmultiple gearings require a support apparatus for multiple gearings thatoffers a simple way of installing multiple gearings for applicationswith increased mechanical efficiency and provides an improvement in atleast one of the aspects outlined.

It would therefore be desirable and advantageous to address prior artshortcomings.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

According to one aspect of the present invention, a support apparatusfor a first gearing and a second gearing or for a drive includes firstand second support flanges, a first support mounted to the first supportflange and destined to introduce a first supporting force into thesecond support flange, and a second support mounted on the secondsupport flange and destined to introduce a second supporting force intothe first support flange, wherein the first support is sized to extendthrough the second support.

The present invention resolves prior art problems by providing a supportapparatus which is embodied for attaching a gearing pair, i.e. a firstand a second gearing. The support apparatus includes two gearingsupports arranged adjacent to one another. Each of the gearing supportsincludes a support flange, i.e. a first and second support flange.Herein, a first support is attached to the first support flange. Thefirst support is embodied to introduce a first supporting force into thesecond support flange. The first supporting force is caused, forexample, by a reactive torque, which is turn caused by a driving torque,which is introduced into the first gearing. Similarly, the secondsupport is embodied to introduce a second supporting force into thefirst support flange. Depending on the orientation of the drivingtorques, and hence depending on the orientations of the reactivetorques, the supporting forces can in each case be embodied as tensileor compressive forces. Herein, the supporting forces are introducedradially, tangentially and/or by a combination thereof into therespective support flange. This overall achieves an advantageousmounting of the first and second gearing during normal operation.According to the invention, the second support is embodied such that thefirst support extends through the second support. This permits a closespatial arrangement of the two supports and enables a favorable anddeformation-resistant attachment of the supports to their respectivesupport flanges. As a result, higher supporting forces can be introducedinto the support flanges with a constant mass of the support arms.Alternatively, constant supporting forces can be introduced into thesupport flanges with a reduced mass of the support arms. The improvedmaterial utilization achieved in this way also offers a longer servicelife and hence greater reliability. The support apparatus according tothe invention is simple to manufacture and inspect and is hencecost-efficient. Herein, the support apparatus according to the inventionis used for gearings embodied to transmit powers of 100 kW to 10 MW, inparticular 200 kW to 7.0 MW. Instead of gearings, the support apparatusaccording to the invention can also be connected to drive means such as,for example, electric motors or hydraulic motors.

According to another advantageous feature of the present invention, thefirst support can be single-armed and the second support can bedouble-armed. Herein, the term “single-armed” should be understood tomean that, at least section-wise, the first support has only onesubstantially planar component and, in this section, can be describedmechanically as a disk. The term “double-armed” should be understood asmeaning that, at least section-wise, the second support has only twoplanar components arranged substantially in parallel, which once againcan be described as a disk in the corresponding sections. As a result,the second support has a clear interspace, which is embodied, at leastsection-wise, to accommodate the single-armed first support. Acombination of a single-armed first support and a double-armed secondsupport enables in a simple way the first support to extend through thesecond support. Corresponding supports can be produced quickly in asimple and cost-efficient manner. Furthermore, single-armed anddouble-armed supports can be embodied with recesses allowing weight tobe saved with the supports, thus simplifying the assembly of the claimedsupport apparatus. Furthermore, correspondingly, single-armed anddouble-armed supports can be mechanically calculated in a simple manner,thus permitting rapid adaptation of the claimed solution to differentapplications.

According to another advantageous feature of the present invention, thefirst and second supports can be separated from one another byintersection in two sections. A two-section separation should beunderstood to mean that two sectional planes are required to cut thefirst support free from the second support in the terms of engineeringmechanics. Overall, this ensures a simpler design.

According to another advantageous feature of the present invention, thefirst support can include a support arm, which is mounted in a flangemain plane of the first support flange. A flange main plane is a planethat is substantially perpendicular to at least one main axis of agearing, which is mounted on the support apparatus. Herein, the mainaxis is, for example, the axis about which a gearing input shaft and/orgearing output shaft rotates in normal operation. The support arm on thefirst support is embodied to reach over the second gearing support, andhence the second support flange. Thus, the support arm on the firstsupport flange is embodied to introduce a supporting force laterallyoutwardly into the second support flange. Positioning of the support armin the flange main plane causes radial forces to act on the support armwith a reduced lever length in the axial direction, and hencesubstantially free of bending loads, on the first support flange. Hence,in normal operation, the bending stress on the first support flange fromthe support arm is infinitesimally negligible. One aspect of theproposed solution resides in a recognition that the bending stress ofsupport flanges substantially determines the mechanical strength ofsupport flanges and hence of corresponding support apparatuses. As aresult, a first support with a support arm extending substantially in aflange main plane provides increased mechanical strength of the supportapparatus and hence an opportunity for enhancing the performance of aconnected mechanical application. Similarly, the increased strengthincreases the service life and reliability of the first support flange.In addition, this reduces bending stresses on detachable attachmentmeans, and axial and radial forces acting thereupon, with which thefirst support is attached to the first flange support. As a result, itis, for example, possible to use screws as detachable attachment means.The need for complex detachable attachment means, such as fit bolts forexample, is thus not consistently necessary or can advantageously bedispensed with. Complex attachment means of this kind can now bereplaced by screws or pins with smaller sizes and lower quality grades,such as, for example, strength classes. Furthermore, the support arm canbe embodied substantially symmetrically in the flange main plane. Such aconfiguration of the support arm is also referred to as a straddlingarrangement.

According to another advantageous feature of the present invention, thesecond support can include two support arms, which are mounted onoppositely-facing end faces of the second support flange. Herein,between the support arms, there is a clear interspace, which serves atleast partially to accommodate the support arm of the first support.Thus, the clear interspace between the support arms of the secondsupport is divided substantially symmetrically by a flange main plane ofthe second support flange. As a result, similarly to the straddlingarrangement of the support arm of the first support, the second supportflange is only exposed to a reduced bending load, thus reducing itsbending stress. Such a configuration further amplifies the advantagesattained by a support apparatus according to the present invention.

According to another advantageous feature of the present invention, astrut can be mounted to an end of the first support arm and/or secondsupport arm. The strut, which is mounted at the end of the support armof the first support, is also coupled to the second support flange. Thestrut, which is mounted at the end of the support arm of the secondsupport, is also coupled to the first support flange. The struts caneach be coupled by an eye-bar connection to the corresponding supportarm and thus transmit a supporting force to the first or second supportflange. The strut is embodied to transmit a tensile force and/orcompressive force so that different loading conditions, i.e. directionsof rotation of gearing input shafts, can be accommodated by the supportapparatus.

Furthermore, the struts can each be embodied for substantiallybending-moment-free introduction of a tensile force or compressive forceinto the first or second support flange. To this end, the struts caneach be connected to the first or second support and the first or secondsupport flange such that the transmitted tensile force or compressiveforce also lies in the first or second flange main plane. For example,the tensile force or compressive force can be introduced into the firstor second support flange free of any axial component. Herein, thetensile force or compressive force can be depicted as a combination of aradial force and a tangential force relative to the main axis of therespective gearing. For this purpose, a corresponding strut anchor canbe mounted on the first and/or second support flange.

According to another advantageous feature of the present invention, thestrut anchor can be attached to the first and/or second support flangeon the first or second support. Herein, the strut anchor can inparticular be embodied in one piece with the first or second support,i.e. molded-on. This simplifies the production of the first and/orsecond support flange. In particular, this enables the first and/orsecond support flange to be embodied substantially rotationallysymmetrically with respect to the main axis of the associated gearing.Furthermore, a combination of the first or second support with theassociated strut anchor reduces the number of components, in particularseparate attachment means for the strut anchors, which in turn enablessimpler installation. Furthermore, the combination of support flange andstrut anchor enables the structural adaptation of a transition betweenthe strut anchor and the associated support arm. Consequently, thisenables the transition from the strut anchor to the support arm to bespecifically constructed in terms of loading and materials and improvedmaterial utilization to be achieved.

Alternatively, it is also possible for at least one of the strut anchorsto be directly formed on the first or second support flange. A strutanchor formed on the first or second support flange provides an easypossibility for introducing a supporting force introduced by a strutinto the first or second support flange appropriately for the loadingand material. Furthermore, a formed-on strut anchor saves on attachmentmeans and installation costs compared to separate strut anchors in adifferential construction method.

According to another advantageous feature of the present invention, atleast one of the first and second support flanges can have at least onesection which is radially shortened so as to reduce a main axis distancebetween the first and second gearings. Such radial shortening can beembodied as a deviation from a rotationally symmetrical basic shape ofthe first and/or second support flange. This can in particular be atruncated flange contour. The radially shortened first and/or secondsupport flange serves to reduce a main axis distance between the mainaxes of the gearings. To this end, the support flanges can be arrangedopposite one another such that the flange main planes of the two supportflanges are substantially identical. Thus, the radial shortening of thesupport flanges enables more compact positioning of the gearings. Hence,the present invention can also be used in mechanical applicationsrequiring a narrow main axis distance. As a result, a support apparatusaccording to the present invention has a wide range of application andenables a more powerful drive and/or gearings to be used in existingmechanical applications for which the maximum installation spaceavailable is defined by a main axis distance. Hence, existing industrialapplications can be expanded in a simple manner and increased powerdensity can be achieved.

According to another advantageous feature of the present invention, atleast one of the first and second support flanges can be configured toform a housing component of the first or second gearing. Herein, thefirst and/or second support flange can in particular be embodied as anoutput-side housing section in which an output shaft of thecorresponding gearing extends. This achieves a high degree ofintegration in the construction of an industrial application equippedwith a corresponding support apparatus.

According to another aspect of the present invention, an industrialapplication includes a first gearing rotating in one direction, a firstdrive shaft disposed in driving relationship to the first gearing toenable supply of driving power to the first gearing, a second gearingrotating in another direction which is opposite to the one direction, asecond drive shaft disposed in driving relationship to the secondgearing to enable supply of driving power to the second gearing, and asupport apparatus configured for attachment of the first and secondgearings, said support apparatus comprising first and second supportflanges, a first support mounted to the first support flange anddestined to introduce a first supporting force into the second supportflange, and a second support mounted on the second support flange anddestined to introduce a second supporting force into the first supportflange, wherein the first support is sized to extend through the secondsupport.

An industrial application according to the present invention thusincludes a first gearing to which driving power is supplied via a firstgearing input shaft, i.e. a driving torque with an operating speed. Theindustrial application also includes a second gearing, which,substantially analogously to the first gearing, can be supplied withdriving power via a second gearing input shaft. In normal operation, thefirst and second gearing input shafts have opposite directions ofrotation which give rise to the corresponding reactive torques. Thefirst and second gearings are attached to a support apparatus in whichthe reactive torques are generated by the driving powers and in which aloading state is established in dependence on the available drivingpower. For the advantageous accommodation of the existing loading state,the support apparatus is embodied according to one of theabove-described embodiments. The corresponding support apparatussimplifies the installation of the industrial application. The increasedreliability and service life of the support apparatus reduces themaintenance outlay for the industrial application. Furthermore, theincreased mechanical strength of the support apparatus endows theindustrial application with a higher driving power and thus increasesthe productivity of the industrial application. The industrialapplication can for example be embodied as a mill, rolling mill, cementmill, sugar mill, extruder, conveyer system, rock crusher, rollercrusher, roller press, roll press, pump, ventilator, ship's propulsionor lifting apparatus.

According to another advantageous feature of the present invention, atleast one of the first and second gearing can be embodied as a planetarygearing. Planetary gearings offer a high power density and enable theincreased mechanical strength of the support apparatus to be utilized toa particular degree. As a result, the advantages of a support apparatusaccording to the present invention are achieved to a high degreeoverall. Alternatively, each of the gearings can in each case also beembodied as a spur gearing unit, a worm gearing unit or as a bevelgearing unit.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING

Other features and advantages of the present invention will be morereadily apparent upon reading the following description of currentlypreferred exemplified embodiments of the invention with reference to theaccompanying drawing, in which:

FIG. 1 is an oblique view of a support apparatus according to thepresent invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic detailed longitudinal section of the supportapparatus of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a schematic further detailed longitudinal section of thesupport apparatus of FIG. 1; and

FIG. 4 is a schematic overview of an industrial application according tothe present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

Throughout all the figures, same or corresponding elements may generallybe indicated by same reference numerals. These depicted embodiments areto be understood as illustrative of the invention and not as limiting inany way. It should also be understood that the figures are notnecessarily to scale and that the embodiments may be illustrated bygraphic symbols, phantom lines, diagrammatic representations andfragmentary views. In certain instances, details which are not necessaryfor an understanding of the present invention or which render otherdetails difficult to perceive may have been omitted.

Turning now to the drawing, and in particular to FIG. 1, there is shownan oblique view of a support apparatus according to the presentinvention, generally designated by reference numeral 10. The supportapparatus 10 includes a first gearing holder 12 and second gearingholder 14, each of which embodied to attach a gearing 40, which is notshown in further detail, to the support apparatus 10. The first gearingholder 12 includes a first support flange 16 and the second gearingholder 14 includes a second support flange 18. In the installed state,torques 25 are introduced into the gearings 40, which rotate about theirmain axes 15. The main axes 15 are spaced apart from one another by amain axis distance 46. Herein, the torques 25 have opposite directionsof rotation 27. As a result, reactive torques 30 are generated in thegearing holders 12, 14, and hence in the support flanges 16, 18. Herein,the reactive torques 30 in each case have reaction directions 31 whichare opposite to the corresponding introduced torques 25 of the gearing40 on the respective gearing holder 12, 14. Hence, the first and secondsupport flange 16, 18 are subjected to reactive torques 30 with oppositeorientations. A first support 22 is attached to the first support flange16 via a plurality of attachment means 33, which are accommodated incorresponding recesses 32 so that the reactive torque 30 acting on thefirst support flange 16 also acts on the first support 16. The firstsupport 22 includes a support arm 26 which substantially reaches overthe adjacently arranged second support flange 18. Herein, the supportarm 26 of the first support 22 is substantially arranged in a flangemain plane 20 of the first support flange 16. Herein, the flange mainplane 20 should be understood to mean the plane which is defined by therecesses 32 for the attachment means 33 and herein lies substantiallyperpendicular to a corresponding main axis 15 of a gearing 40. Herein,the arrangement of the support arm 26 of the first support 22 in theflange main plane 20 of the first support flange 16 is also referred toas a straddling arrangement.

At one support arm end 28 of its support arm 26, the first support 22 isconnected in an articulated manner via an eye-bar connection 36 to astrut 34. The strut 34 at the corresponding support arm-end 28 is inturn connected via a further eye-bar connection 36 to an attachmentbearing 23, which is in turn embodied in one piece with the secondsupport 24. The second support 24 is connected to the second supportflange 18 via attachment elements 33. A reactive torque 30 that isproduced by the torque 25 of a gearing 40 on the first gearing holder 12is introduced into the second support flange 18 via the support arm 26of the first support 22. Herein, the attachment mounting 23 on thesecond support flange 18 exerts a tensile force 35 on the correspondingstrut 34. In a corresponding manner, a reactive torque 30, which it isestablished as a result of a torque 25 of a gearing 40 mounted on thesecond gearing holder 14, is introduced into the first support flange 16via the second support 24.

The first support 22 includes only one support arm 26 and is henceembodied as single-armed. The second support 24 includes two supportarms 26, which are substantially embodied as congruent and mounted onthe second support flange 18 spaced apart from one another. Hence, thesecond support 24 is embodied as double-armed. The support arms 26 ofthe second support 24 are arranged spaced apart from one another suchthat the support arm 26 of the first support 22 extends through a clearspace 29 between the support arms 26 of the second support 24. As aresult, the first support 22 extends through the second support 24.Consequently, the support arm 26 of the first support 22 and the supportarms 26 of the second support 26 are separated from one another byintersection in two sections. Furthermore, each of the support arms 26in the support apparatus 10 is provided with openings 21 thus achievingbetter material utilization by the support arms 26. The arrangement ofthe support arms 26 of the first and second support 24 allowssubstantially purely coplanar forces and torques to be present in theflange main planes 20 of the first and second support flange 16, 18 andhence the first and second support flange 16, 18 are substantiallybending-moment-free. This aspect is depicted in more detail in FIG. 2.Furthermore, the first and second support flanges 16, 18 are embodied,section-wise, as radially shortened on opposing faces in the region ofthe flange main planes 20. As a result, the main axis distance 46 isshorter than in the solutions known from the prior art.

FIG. 2 is a schematic detailed view of the embodiment according to FIG.1 in the region of the first gearing holder 12. The first support 22 isattached via at least one attachment means 33 to the first supportflange 16 which has corresponding recesses 32 for accommodating theattachment elements 33. Herein, the at least one attachment means 33 isembodied as a screw with a nut. The support arm 26 is embodied andarranged on the first support flange 16 such that the flange main plane20 of the first support flange 16 divides the support arm 26 of thefirst support 22 substantially symmetrically. Herein, the support arm 26is embodied as single-armed. The support arm 26 is acted upon by abending force 38 resulting from the tensile force 35, which, in FIG. 1is present in the strut 34 on the support arm end 28 of the support arm26 of the first support 22. Due to the fact that the first support 22 isarranged substantially symmetrically relative to the flange main plane20 of the first support flange 16, bending moments 42 by means of whicha deflection 44 can be impressed on the support arm 26 and/or the firstsupport flange 16 along a main direction of rotation 15 become zero.Thus, bending stresses due to bending moments 42 in the sense of FIG. 2are avoided in the claimed support apparatus 10. In particular,mechanical stress is reduced in the region of a support arm root 39. Theavoidance of bending moments 42 results in more favorable materialstressing during the operation of the claimed support apparatus 10. Thispermits the connection of gearings 40 to the support apparatus 10 inwhich increased torques 25 are present while simultaneously keeping thematerial stressing in the first support flange 16 constant.

Corresponding to FIG. 2, FIG. 3 is a detailed view of the embodiment inFIG. 1. FIG. 3 shows a longitudinal section in the region of the secondsupport flange 18 on the second gearing holder 14. A second support 24is mounted on the second support flange 18 via attachment means 33embodied as screws with nuts. To this end, the attachment means 33 areaccommodated in recesses 32 in the second support 22 and the secondsupport flange 18. The second support 18 includes two support arms 26that are substantially parallel to one another. Between the support arms26, there is a clear space 29, which is embodied to accommodate asupport arm 26 of a first support 22 as in FIG. 2. As a result, it ispossible for the first support 22 in FIG. 2 to extend through the secondsupport 24. The support arms 26 of the second support 24 are orientedsymmetrically to a flange main plane 20 that extends substantiallycentrally through the second support flange 18. Each of the support arms26 in FIG. 3 is acted upon by a bending force 38, which is generated bya tensile force 35 that, in normal operation, occurs due to a tensileforce 35 on at least one support arm end 28. The bending forces 38 actsubstantially parallel to the flange main plane 20 so that bendingmoments 42 capable of causing a deflection 44 of the support arms 26along the main axis of rotation 15 become zero. The reduced materialstressed achieved in this way ensures a longer service life of thesecond support 18. Alternatively, this enables the torque 25 transmittedvia a gearing 40 mounted on the second gearing holder 14 to be increasedand thus utilized better for the second support 24 and the secondsupport flange 18.

FIG. 4 is a schematic view of the configuration of an industrialapplication 60 according to a first embodiment. The industrialapplication 60 includes two parallel strands 62, 64 in each of which adrive means 66 is arranged. The drive means 66 are each embodied aselectric motors or internal combustion engines and each have a driveshaft 68. A driving power 65 with a specific torque 25 is transmittedvia the drive shaft 68 to a gearing 40. The first gearing 40 in thefirst strand 64 and the second gearing 40 in the second strand 64 areeach embodied as a planetary gearing 45 with a main axis 15. The mainaxes 15 are spaced apart from one another by a main axis distance 46.The first and second gearing 40 in each case cause a transformation ofthe driving power 65 in respect of torque and speed. With thistransformation, an increase in the torque causes a reduction in thespeed and vice versa. The substantially constant driving power 65 is ineach case forwarded by the gearings 40 via an output shaft 69 to amechanical application 70 by means of which the purpose of theindustrial application 60 is fulfilled. The drive means 66 are embodiedsuch that the drive shafts 68 have opposite directions of rotation 27.This causes opposite reactive torques 30 in the gearings 40, which arein turn accommodated by a common support apparatus 10. The supportapparatus includes a first and a second gearing holder 12, 14 in each ofwhich one of the gearings 40 is installed. Herein, the support apparatus10 is embodied according to one of the above-described embodiments. Theindustrial application 60 can be embodied by a corresponding choice ofthe mechanical application 70 for example as a mill, roller mill, cementmill, sugar mill, extruder, conveyer system, rock crusher, rollercrusher, roller press, roll press, pump, ventilator, ship's propulsionor lifting apparatus.

While the invention has been illustrated and described in connectionwith currently preferred embodiments shown and described in detail, itis not intended to be limited to the details shown since variousmodifications and structural changes may be made without departing inany way from the spirit and scope of the present invention. Theembodiments were chosen and described in order to explain the principlesof the invention and practical application to thereby enable a personskilled in the art to best utilize the invention and various embodimentswith various modifications as are suited to the particular usecontemplated.

What is claimed is:
 1. A support apparatus for a first gearing and a second gearing or for a drive, said support apparatus comprising: a first support flange; and a second support flange; a first support mounted to the first support flange and configured to introduce a first supporting force into the second support flange; and a second support mounted on the second support flange and configured to introduce a second supporting force into the first support flange, wherein the first support is sized to extend through the second support.
 2. The support apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first support is single-armed and the second support is double-armed.
 3. The support apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first support and the second support are separated from one another by intersection in two sections.
 4. The support apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first support comprises a support arm, which is mounted in a flange main plane of the first support flange.
 5. The support apparatus of claim 4, further comprising a strut mounted to an end of the support arm and configured to introduce a tensile force and/or compressive force.
 6. The support apparatus of claim 1, wherein the second support comprises two support arms, which are mounted on oppositely-facing end faces of the second support flange.
 7. The support apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a strut having one end mounted to one end of the first support and another end mounted to one end of the second support for bending-moment-free introduction, relative to a flange main plane, of a tensile force or compressive force into the first or second support flange.
 8. The support apparatus of claim 1, wherein at least one member selected from the group consisting of the first support and the second support is equipped with an attachment bearing.
 9. The support apparatus of claim 8, wherein the attachment bearing is formed on the member.
 10. The support apparatus of claim 1, wherein at least one of the first support flange and the second support flange has at least one section which is radially shortened so as to reduce a main axis distance between the first and second gearings.
 11. The support apparatus of claim 1, wherein at least one of the first support flange and the second support flange is configured to form a housing component of the first or second gearing.
 12. An industrial application, comprising: a first gearing rotating in one direction; a first drive shaft disposed in driving relationship to the first gearing to enable supply of driving power to the first gearing; a second gearing rotating in another direction which is opposite to the one direction; a second drive shaft disposed in driving relationship to the second gearing to enable supply of driving power to the second gearing; and a support apparatus configured for attachment of the first and second gearings, said support apparatus comprising a first support flange and a second support flange, a first support mounted to the first support flange and configured to introduce a first supporting force into the second support flange, and a second support mounted on the second support flange and configured to introduce a second supporting force into the first support flange, wherein the first support is sized to extend through the second support.
 13. The industrial application of claim 12, wherein at least one of the first and second gearing is embodied as a planetary gearing.
 14. The industrial application of claim 12, wherein the first support comprises a support arm, which is mounted in a flange main plane of the first support flange.
 15. The industrial application of claim 12, wherein the second support comprises two support arms, which are mounted on oppositely-facing end faces of the second support flange.
 16. The industrial application of claim 15, further comprising a strut mounted to an end of the support arm and configured to introduce a tensile force and/or compressive force.
 17. The industrial application of claim 12, further comprising a strut having one end mounted to one end of the first support and another end mounted to one end of the second support for bending-moment-free introduction, relative to a flange main plane, of a tensile force or compressive force into the first or second support flange.
 18. The industrial application of claim 12, wherein at least one member selected from the group consisting of the first support and the second support is equipped with an attachment bearing.
 19. The industrial application of claim 12, wherein at least one of the first support flange and the second support flange has at least one section which is radially shortened so as to reduce a main axis distance between the first and second gearings.
 20. The industrial application of claim 12, wherein at least one of the first support flange and the second support flange is configured to form a housing component of the first or second gearing. 